Acting For Real

Acting For Real: Scene Study, On-Camera, Audition Prep is for actors of every level!

Wednesdays: 6:30-9:30pm
Six weeks: October 16th-November 20th

Ages 18 and up
$350.00
Instructor: Noëlle Parker

Are you hoping to gain more artistic skills? 
Learn and try out new performance techniques?
Develop an understanding of script analysis? 

Classes will begin with a warm -up to release the tension from our daily lives. This allows students to truly inhabit their physical body, the actor’s ‘instrument’.  Students will learn to ask and answer specific questions by focusing on the material.  In a real-life audition scenario, one must make choices in a blink of an eye. Choices that will set them apart from their peers & other actors “in the room”.  These ideas must be executed with confidence & self-assurance IN FRONT OF A CAMERA. This creates a performance that reveals the subtexts that emotionally impact their character, and in turn their audience.
In a positive, encouraging environment we will work on scenes in front of the class. With input and critique from myself and your fellow students, you will understand how to reveal the deeper layers of your character’s wants, needs, and motivations. Each student’s personal life experience can be used to build the character in order to create a dynamic  and unique performance on stage, on camera, or for auditions. Two sessions will be devoted to on-camera film/tv auditions. Family and friends are invited to the final class on November 20th to see a Showcase of the student's work!

Noëlle Parker began her professional career on stage at The Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC. At 11 years old, she was one of the youngest actresses to become a member of EST. She appeared in their annual Marathon of One Acts for the next 5 years. Noëlle attended the original High School of Performing Arts on 46th street (now known as LaGuardia) where she was formally trained in the methods of Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagan. At 13 she began private classes studying extensively with Susan Batson and Sandra Seacat in New York, and with Dominic DeFazio in Los Angeles.

Noëlle has appeared in numerous films and television shows alongside Sean Penn, Blythe Danner, Brian Dennehy, Sam Waterston, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Dermott Mulroney to name a few. Most notably appearing in the title role of NBC's The Amy Fisher Story, the film At Close Range and as a regular on the series Sisters playing the defiant wayward daughter of Swoosie Kurtz. She was awarded a daytime Emmy for her work in Different Worlds - An Interracial Love Story. Most recently, Noëlle can be seen in the 2020 film They Only Know So Much where she is also an Associate Producer.

Having worked and studied for most of her professional career has given Noëlle a unique advantage as a teacher and private coach. She brings her own knowledge and experience to help all stages of actors achieve their goals. She has been living and working in the Sag Harbor community for the last ten years while continuing her acting career and working as a private coach locally and in NYC. She is excited to offer this work to the East End Hamptons community!